Desexualisation in Later Life

Paul Simpson has lectured at several northwest universities, including the Department of Sociology at the University of Manchester, and is currently an independent academic. Paul Reynolds is Associate Lecturer at The Open University.Trish Hafford-Letchfield is Professor of Social Work at the University of Strathclyde.

• Series Editor Introduction - Paul Simpson, Trish Hafford-Letchfield and Paul Reynolds Foreword - Ketki Ranade1. Introduction to the Volume: Themes, Issues and Chapter Synopses - Paul Simpson, Paul Reynolds and Trish Hafford-Letchfield2. Consent and Sexual Literacy for Older People - Paul Reynolds 3. ‘At YOUR Age???!!!’: the Constraints of Ageist Erotophobia on Older People’s Sexual and Intimate Relationships - Paul Simpson4. The Aesthetic(s) of the Eroticism in Old Age - Ricardo Iacub and Feliciano Villar5. Menopause and the ‘Menoboom’: How Older Women are Desexualised by Culture - Clare Anderson. 6. Ageing, Physical Disability and Desexualisation - Susan Gillen and Paul Reynolds.7. Ageing, Intellectual Disability and Desexualisation - Susan Gillen and Paul Reynolds8. Dancing in- or out-of-step? Sexual and Intimate Relationships among Heterosexual Couples Living with Alzheimer’s Disease - Linn J. Sandberg. 9. Older People Living in Long-term Care: No Place for Old Sex? - Feliciano Villar and Josep Faba10. Ageing and the LGBTI+ Community: a Case Study of Australian Care Policy - Jane Youell11. The role of professionals and service providers in supporting sexuality and intimacy in later life: theoretical and practice perspectives - Trish Hafford-Letchfield 12. Final reflections: themes and issues arising from the volume on desexualisation in later life- Paul Simpson, Trish Hafford-Letchfield and Paul Reynolds